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| | Cristoforo Colombo - Italian, Cristoforo Colombo, Spanish, Cristóbal Colón), Italian-Spanish navigator |
 | | Cristoforo Colombo - Italian, Cristoforo Colombo, Spanish, Cristóbal Colón), Italian-Spanish navigator |
 | | Columbus, Christopher (Italian, Cristoforo Colombo, Spanish, Cristóbal Colón) (1451-1506), Italian-Spanish navigator who sailed west across the Atlantic Ocean in search of a route to Asia but achieved fame by making landfall, instead, in the Caribbean Sea. |
 | | His father was a weaver, and it is believed that Christopher entered this trade as a young man. Information about the beginning of his seafaring career is uncertain, but the independent city-state of Genoa had a busy port, and he may have sailed as a commercial agent in his youth. |
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